Arcángel Constantini. Mexico. produces work of a marked ludic-experimental nature, strongly influenced by the fortuitous, chaotic processes of the city as reflected in the systematic use of error aesthetics. His work and artistic practice explore the dynamics of visual and sound works, low-tech installations, propaganda action, visual/sound performance, hardware hacking , installation , sound art an Independent curator , has been developing the program of Cyberlounge, Museo Rufino Tamayo since 2001 ,was part of curatorial team for Transitio Mx , and is part of dorkbot mexico df council holder of awards, among them the Prize for Best Multimedia Work at Vidarte, Video and Electronic Arts Festival, CENART (Mexico City, 1999); and the Bronze Prize for his project 123456789px.htm, MCMOGATK, Machida City Museum of Graphic Arts, Tokyo and Art on the Net, 1999. he is part of Sistema Nacional de Creadores Fonca grant and in 2002 received the Rockefeller / Macarthur grant for new media production , director of ¼ www.un-cuarto.org an independent electronic art exhibition space , he has participated with his work in exhibitions , festivals in countries as Japan ,Peru , Germany, Holland, Italy , Canada , United Kingdom ,France ,Uruguay , Brazil , Australia, Spain ,Korea , Puerto Rico , etc

m(rpm)2006-2013Iván Abreu, 20132013, retrospective exhibit: documentation and designed furniture.After six years ongoing, m(rpm) was exhibit in the context of the collective exhibit "Entropy theory". The idea was rescue documentation from the project and combine it in a video-installation with videos, photographs, molds and three sculpture-furnitures. Besides, in the openning day the artist played an ice vinyl with the national anthem and another frozen disc stayed in an freezer designed as a sculpture during the exhibit period.

The photographs and videos were contained on a grid and narrated the history of the piece, from the first projects made of ice and the first ice vinyl to the last exhibit in Berlin in 2011. Some photographs also show the procedure to create the discs. The videos are a sampler of some of the live acts and exhibitions where the discs had been played.

The projectors and molds were lodged in a furniture designed specially for the exhibit. The design of the furnitures was thinked and guided by the vinyl disc edition decades; so, the whole installation got an atmosphere suitable with the pieces. The molds selected for the exhibition were the one used for the ice disc of the mexican national anthem ("Música y voz de la patría", 1967), the Keneddy's speech ("The presidential year", 1963) and "Los inmortales de la canción ranchera"(1979)

Ever since he started working as an artist, Gustavo Romano has experimented with the conceptual possibilities and processes of the production of new media such as video, animation and the Internet. For Romano, this self-reflexive Web-based work is playful and spontaneous; it is also meant to be contrasted with day-to-day reality‹a consistent characteristic of Internet art practice.

This exhibition, Gustavo Romano. Utilitarian Objects for an Unstable Universe, includes Mi deseo es tu deseo (My Desire Is Your Desire, 1996) which is one of the first pieces in which Romano worked with the Web; this piece deals with the concept of assumed identities within the interplay of networks. In Hyperbody (2000­2004), the artist refers to the complex issue of digital corporeity and associates human body parts with the Web¹s digital space. Romano began a stage of work as a ³classifier² of species with the construction of Cyberzoo (2003­2005), a digital-era menagerie for endangered creatures that are harmful to mankind. In The World 1:1 (2003), the experience of navigating the Internet is associated with ³real² coordinates and perceptions of urban space. In turn, the project IP Poetry (2006) is about generating poems based on a real-time search for text materials on the Web.

Autonomies of Disagreement New Media Art and VideoInternational Festival

OPEN CALL

In order to support, acknowledge, and promote current research andproduction in new media art,Consejo Nacional para la Cultura y las Artes through its CentroMultimedia of the Centro Nacionalde las Artes calls the local and international artistic community to theThird New Media and Art Contestwhich will take place in the New Media and Art Video International Festival.

The contest is open to any individual, group and association engaged inthe production of artwork createdwith new media technologies, including video art, sound art, net-art,installation, composition, performance and related disciplines.

The Third New Media and Art Contest, Autonomies of Disagreement,provides a setting of located practices,where disagreement allows for dialogue and exchange in the realms oflocal and international new media art.

This international contest is concerned with acknowledging thosedistinct technological displacementsand art’s current status, bearing a particular emphasis on thoseartworks whose technological innovationsand contributions are supported by means that can be used for creation,stressing above all a critical perspective.

#1 Residual topographyThis category seeks to reveal the discourses pronounced by means ofobsolete technology (electronic and digital)and those articulated when contrasting local technologies with hightechnology appropriations. It is open for installation;interactive, immersed or sound environments; robotic art; hardwarehacking; circuit bending; physical computing;site intervention; or any other related disciplines. A single prize willbe awarded worth $50,000 (Fifty thousand Mexican pesos).The Jury will decide the honorable mentions granted.

#2 Unusual displacements: the scope of the moving imagesIn order to analyze the moving images technological reconfigurations(and/or its possibilities) and consider its unusual territories, this category is intended to welcome artworks that use moving images inany of its modalities, be it lineal presentation or interaction:single channel video, 16mm, live cinema, Vj´s, videogame, mobile video,interactive animation, augmented reality, or any otherrelated disciplines. A single prize will be awarded worth $50,000 (Fiftythousand Mexican pesos). The Jury will decide the honorablementions granted.

#3Dissident territories: the emergence of technologyIn order to explore technological developments that differ fromindustrial ones, this category looks for research and technologydevelopment projects who seek for innovations in the use of digitaltools and electronic circuits with expressive and experimentalmeans: free hardware and software, bioethical technology, gadgetdevelopment, applications, devices or any other related disciplines.A single prize will be awarded worth $50,000 (Fifty thousand Mexicanpesos). The Jury will decide the honorable mentions granted.

All works must be submitted after this notification and no later thanJune 19th at 15:00 hrs.

Works postmarked after the application deadline will not be considered.The submission date will be considered only if artworksare sent thorough express mail, not through ordinary mail. Submissionsmust clearly indicate the category they belong to.

International submissions must be clearly labeled as “Material culturalsin valor commercial”. THE FESTIVAL WILL NOT COVER MAILING OR OTHER CUSTOMS FEES.